okay
um
now the term personal computer uh i don't happen to have one at home
um
but i do have a personal computer on my desk here
a type of work station
yeah uh yeah just kind of it's kind of a kluge
that was pieced together to to uh
shall we say bypass the formal
procurement process
and uh it it works just fine it says it's a monochrome monitor
Panasonic printer
uh
no big deal it it does the things i need for it to do
is it a two eighty six or three eighty six base machine
no it's not even that
it's eighty eighty eight
uh i think that's about where it is
okay uh
what type of uh utilizations do you make of it word processing obviously
uh yeah i do that i i do uh some Lotus on it uh do some uh Samna some uh PFM
uh
nothing extremely complex
okay uh i use them both here at work and at home
uh-huh
and i have IBM clones in both cases
yep
here at work i have the TI one thousand which is a three eighty six base machine machine
oh yeah i bet that's a pretty nice setup
yes it is uh unfortunately i need all of it
yep
uh for example i was messing around with a spreadsheet this weekend that's a third of a meg in beta size
wow
and that i know that uh brings an eighty eighty eight machine to it's knees because
i had taken it over from a friend who was working on it and he had a two eighty six machine and it brought it to it's knees
yep
wow
just in the ability to handle
and then i have uh
a three eighty six FX a sixteen bit machine
uh-huh
at home and i'm really pleased with it
uh-huh
it manages to take care of all my home needs in terms of word processing and spreadsheets and uh databases database searches
sure
uh-huh
uh what i've gotten into more recently are the tools to use them
have you
yeah
yeah
to try to make them more effective and useful
right
have you been uh struggling along those lines
well um i seem to always be in the the next to the last generation of word processing software when everyone was in Samna i was still in PFM and
now that i finally become proficient in Samna everybody's going to WordPerfect so i can never quite stay current with that
well i think you will be real pleased to get away from the banana as i used to call it it's uh
i used it on uh some other machines in days gone by and was real pleased to leave it it was a real memory hog when you started making large block changes to it
uh-huh
the at least the version i had tended to keep copies of that
oh
of what you were changing and deleting off in memory until all of all of a sudden you got a disc full error
huh
not a fun thing to try to recover from
very frustrating
i can believe i can believe that
uh but again i've been dealing with large files both data and and otherwise
uh that was a
engineering spec on B2
you come here with the B level of specs
no not really i'm not that up on that sort of thing
well it's just a huge file that tries to describe the requirements of what you're trying to build
oh okay
uh
to one level down from assistant description
oh okay
okay
oh well it sounds like you're pretty much into computers
well i sure need them
uh there's no way that i could begin to process and keep up with the kinds of information or the magnitude of information that i need to to try to do my job without them
i can believe that
well it's it's been interesting
yes uh maybe you'll play around some and figure out how they can help you do different things
i think that's when you you start deciding that you really need greater assets than you already have
when you start seeing what all they can do for you
yeah of course needs and wants aren't necessarily the same thing
well i understand that you know
if needs and wants were the same i'd have a four eighty six machine at home
oh it is is that the newest thing now the four eighty six
right
that that must be a fairly recent release
uh that's came out around the first of the year
okay okay because i i had done capital packages for two eighty sixes and three eighty sixes but
i didn't know they had a four eighty six just yet
it does a few more things uh
uh-huh
than
had been available before
yeah
but i'm not sure that it's such a massive improvement uh you know once you get passed thirty three megahertz all help is kind of lost in the in the translation
sure
because you no longer can think that fast anyway
yeah
well okay i enjoyed our discussion
i did too and you have a good day
you do the same
bye-bye
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